COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

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HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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Qualified Names
Every name that you reference in a COBOL program must be unique, either because
no other name has the same spelling (including hyphenation) or because the name is
part of a hierarchy of names (such as a data-name defined within a record). In the
latter case, you can qualify the name with one or more of the higher-level names. You
must specify enough higher-level names to make the name unique, but you need not
specify all levels. The most significant name in a hierarchy must have unique spelling,
because you cannot qualify it.
Qualified Condition-Name:
Qualified Data-Name:
Qualified Paragraph-Name:
Qualified Text-Name:
condition-name
OF
IN
conditional-variable-name
mnemonic-name
VST001.vsd
data-name
OF
IN
file-name
OF
IN
data-name
VST002.vsd
paragraph-name
OF
IN
section-name
VST003.vsd
OF
IN
text-name
library-name
VST004.vsd